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THE

RUDIMENTS

OF

LATIN GRAMMAR.

BY ALEXANDER ADAM, LL. D.

Rector of the High School of Edinburgh.

REVISED AND ABRIDGED BY EBENEZER FITCH, D. D.
REVIS
PRESIDENT OF WILLIAMS' COLLEGE.

RECOMMENDED BY THE TRUSTEES OF SAID COLLEGE, TO BE
USED BY THOSE WHO ARE INTENDED FOR

THAT SEMINARY.

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FROM THE AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.

THE materials of this Grammar are collected from the

best Grammarians, chiefly from Mr. Ruddiman. In this edition there are feveral improvements. The Syntax is greatly enlarged, by the addition of many useful obfervations and examples; and particularly by a full explanation of the different meaning and conftruction of Verbs and Prepofitions, and of thofe phrafes which occafion moft difficulty to learners, collected from the Claffics, and from the best writers on Latinity.

By the natural divifion of words and fentences into Simple and Compound, no rule or example is introduced in Syntax or Profody, till the learner is properly prepared, by what goes before, to understand it; which is not the cafe in the Latin Grammars commonly used: where, not to mention other instances, the construction of the Relative, which requires a previous acquaintance with most of the other rules of conftruction, is placed near the beginning of Syntax; and, what appears ftill more prepofterous, in Profody, the rules concerning the quantity of compounds are placed before thofe concerning the quantity of fimple words. Thefe improprieties in arrangement occafion greater inconvenience to learners than is generally imagined.

After the Syntax, there is a brief account and explanation of the various Tropes and Figures of words and of thought, which occur in the Claffics, compiled from the most approved authors, chiefly from Quintilian, and Marfais fur les Tropes.

The greatest care has every where been taken, to make the tranflation of Latin words and phrases fubfervient to the knowledge of English. Thefe, and feveral other particulars not mentioned, it is hoped, will be found to be improvements of fome importance in the plan of Education.

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